Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th May 2008 07:46 UTC, submitted by Rahul
A week ago, the Fedora Project released Fedora 9 into the world. Fedora 9 comes with GNOME 2.22, KDE 4.0.3, Xfce 4.2.2, PackageKit, Firefox 3.0 beta 5, a 2.6.25-based Linux kernel, and much more. As always, the intertubes have been flooded with reviews, so we figured we would summarise a few of them.
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Yes it is my opinion. It is also the opinion of the person Driving the next release of Xserver 1.5
"...It's the least buggy X server branch with the features we want.
I admit, it's not a release, and that's entirely process failure on my part.Having lots of masters to obey is not easy, and in this case my time got chewed up by other business obligations. Thanks RHEL, you're awesome. So the thing I chose to sacrifice was the (actually fairly labor-intensive) process of badging the tarball as a release. It still got bug fixes. It's ABI-stable..."
I admit, it's not a release, and that's entirely process failure on my part.Having lots of masters to obey is not easy, and in this case my time got chewed up by other business obligations. Thanks RHEL, you're awesome. So the thing I chose to sacrifice was the (actually fairly labor-intensive) process of badging the tarball as a release. It still got bug fixes. It's ABI-stable..."
In other words the pre-release would have been a release if he had more time. It is a release in anything but name and driver have had notice of ABI stability for... at least 2 months.
So, yes it is my opinion. But I like to think it is informed after looking at both sides of the debate.
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2008-03-08
It does not matter who's fault it is, or even if it was the right choice (which it probably was - with the downside of "bad marketing" done by those who want nVidia proprietary drivers on day 1).
For most people this is a non-issue. For those who are being held back, give it a few weeks and nVidia will catch up. You do not need to upgrade on day 1. That is sometimes the price of using closed source software.
The Fedora community made the right choice for Fedora.
If nVidia drivers are so important that they are needed on day 1, try pressuring them into releasing specs (like AMD) or code (like Intel).